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Project SOUL March 2018 (Myanmar)

Project SOUL is a charity medical mission where Department of Surgery sends surgical professionals and medical students to neighbouring countries that requires surgical facilities and expertise. The aim of Project SOUL is to operate, teach, support and supplement the health services in these countries.

What to take note of in a donor transplant

Headline:

活体肝脏移植应注意哪些事项？(What to take note of in a living donor liver transplant)A/Prof Iyer Shridhar (Senior Consultant, National University Centre for Organ Transplantation) explains that the best option for a liver transplant is to get an organ from a deceased or brain dead donor after being placed on the waiting list. He emphasises that in situations where living donor transplant is an option, caregivers should speak to doctors in the transplant team. He also states the requirements of a potential living liver donor.

Source:

Lianhe Zaobao, zbLOHAS, Page 2

Date:

Tuesday, 15 January 2019

Coverage:

Local, NUH

Tone:

Positive

Remarks:

Initiated by NUH Corporate Communications

NUH offers safer prostate cancer check

Dr Lincoln Tan (Consultant, Department of Urology and Director of Urologic Oncology) explains that the newly-introduced transperineal prostate biopsy has an almost zero risk of serious infection, unlike the standard transrectal method which carries a 3 per cent risk. The article also mentions that NUH is the first Southeast Asian hospital to offer this low-risk biopsy done using local anaesthesia.

A/Prof Iyer Shridhar Ganpathi will be interviewed live on 938NOW on 22 Nov (Thurs), 10.00am to 11.00am on the Body and Soul Programme hosted by Daniel Martin,in his capacity as Head and Senior Consultant, Division of Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery, NUH.

Other than speaking on the do’s and don’ts for good liver health, A/Prof Shridhar will also be sharing some useful public information about liver donation.

If you missed A/Prof Iyer Shridhar’s live radio interview on 938NOW earlier, there will be a repeat broadcast at 5.00pm to 6.00pm today.